Ecology of Java & BaliPeriplus Editions (HK) Limited, 1996 - 969 pages Java and Bali are the best known of all the islands in Indonesia, and nowhere else in the country are ecological issues so acute. This book provides invaluable ecological data, so that development activities can be viewed in light of their ecological and social impacts.These eagerly-awaited volumes are the result of four years of research into the status of Indonesian coastal and marine ecosystems. They chart the extraordinary treasure trove of the areas marine biodiversity, and discuss the problems that have resulted from current population pressures and economic development. |
Contents
Part | 1 |
Ecological issues | 19 |
Carrying capacity and land | 37 |
Securing water quantity | 47 |
Ubiquitous chemicals | 56 |
Conservation areas and local | 66 |
Part | 85 |
Physiographic regions | 105 |
Rice and maize | 563 |
Plantation forestry | 589 |
Agroforestry | 601 |
Estates | 625 |
Aquaculture | 631 |
Ricefish cultivation | 637 |
Seaweed | 646 |
Dogs and rabies | 667 |
Soils | 115 |
Hydrology | 129 |
Flora and vegetation | 147 |
Vegetation | 190 |
Mammals | 205 |
Reptiles and amphibians | 238 |
Freshwater fishes | 251 |
Moths | 263 |
Human Background | 309 |
History | 315 |
Sundanese | 337 |
Part C | 343 |
Beaches | 372 |
Mangrove forest | 387 |
Uses management and | 407 |
Lakes and rivers | 413 |
Lowland forests | 463 |
Deciduous forests | 470 |
Mountains | 497 |
Biomass and productivity | 525 |
Effects of disturbance | 533 |
Caves | 539 |
Attitudes to natural disasters | 685 |
Biogeography and the loss | 691 |
Implications of island | 697 |
Preservation of genetic variation | 704 |
State of conservation | 723 |
Threatened species | 743 |
Buffer zones and integrated | 760 |
Major existing | 767 |
vii | 770 |
Dungus Iwul | 783 |
Mt Gede Pangrango | 789 |
Nusa Kambangan | 800 |
Nusa Barung | 806 |
Meru Betiri | 812 |
Part | 831 |
Deep ecology | 840 |
Appendices | 851 |
Sites of selected bird | 857 |
Bibliography | 863 |
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